As state hammers away at worker's comp reform, some see changes as potential nightmare

5:29 AM,
Apr. 7, 2013

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Duane Marsteller
| The Tennessean

Matt Webster didn't want to be seriously hurt on the job four years ago, and he's especially glad it didn't happen under Gov. Bill Haslam's proposed workers' compensation reforms.

Otherwise, Webster says, he probably would have been financially ruined.

He suffered burns over a third of his body, primarily on his back, right arm and neck, from a flash fire at the Shelbyville, Tenn., printing plant where he worked. His employer's workers' compensation insurance carrier later paid a $235,000 disability settlement that Webster and his family have since survived on because he has been unable ...